Tiara is a decorative crown traditionally worn by women with jewelry. Suitable for formal occasions, especially "white bow ties".
This European headdress is not only popular among European royal families, but also in Asian royal families: the Japanese royal family, the Malaysian royal family, the Thai royal family, the Brunei royal family, etc. have customized European crowns for female royals.
We often lament the gorgeous jewelry of the British royal family, in fact, many inconspicuous Asian royal jewelry is more "trench". Today, let's talk about the crown of the Brunei royal family.
Members of the Brunei royal family and the Queen of Brunei pose for a group photo
The Queen of Brunei's huge crown shines brighter than the Queen's
We know very little about the provenance of most of the royal family's jewelry in Brunei, but we can still appreciate their brilliance from the photos.
King of Brunei with eldest wife and second wife
The king of Brunei has taken three wives in total, and the other two wives are divorced from the king in addition to the eldest wife. After divorcing the king, the three wives also found true love again, married and had children.
The king of Brunei is the eldest wife and the third wife
The eldest wife, Salehal, has the most jewels, and is not inferior to the Queen of England at all. Each of her crowns is quite large, and she has everything she needs.
King of Brunei and his wife
Brunei royal women wear crowns in a unique way, generally wrapping their hair in a headscarf and then fixing the crown on the headscarf.
Queen of Sweden and Queen of Brunei
Many people are curious about how Brunei royal women fix the crown, because the hairpin that holds the crown is not visible from the surface of the turban.
The King and His Wife of Brunei and the Countess of Wessex, England
Some people think that Brunei royal women wear a double turban when wearing a crown, they first wear a bandana to wrap their hair, then wear a crown and fix it with a hairpin, and finally cover the back of the crown with a turban to cover the place where the hairpin is fixed.
The King and Couple of Brunei
Brunei royal women also do not all have to wear a headscarf before wearing a crown, and they can also not wear a headscarf.
Queen of Brunei Saleh
Queen Saleha of Brunei was so generous that she often lent her crown to her daughters-in-law, daughters, nieces, and nieces.
The youngest son of the King of Brunei and the Princess were married
The wedding of the Brunei royal family is a large jewelry display scene, and we can see that the brides really shine from head to toe: shiny crowns, dresses embellished with crystal diamonds, huge sparkling gemstone necklaces and brooches, luxurious jewelry bouquets...
Prince and princess of Brunei
Princess Huda wedding
Princess Haja Wedding
The crown of the Brunei royal family is large, and the jewels are particularly exaggerated and set. Each crown of Queen Saleha of Brunei is enough to rival the most extravagant crowns of the european royal families. Arguably, the crown of the Brunei royal family is more luxurious than that of most European royal families.
Although the crown jewelry is luxurious enough to shine, I just don't think it looks high enough, there is a feeling of upstart, and there is no sense of elegance when European royal women wear the crown.
Take a look at the contrast between brunei royal women and European royal women wearing similar crowns.
Swedish Braganza Crown vs Brunei Fancy Diamond Crown
The Braganza Crown worn by Queen Sylvia of Sweden is one of the most important and largest collections of the Swedish royal family. Together with the Imperial Crown of Luxembourg and the Stuart Crown of the Dutch Crown, it is the three largest female crowns in The European Royal Family.
This huge crown also dwarfs the Queen of Brunei's crown of colored diamonds. Queen Saleh has been wearing this grand headdress decorated with large colored diamonds since the 1980s.
Dutch Stuart Crown vs Brunei Pear-shaped Main Diamond Crown
Queen Maxima of the Netherlands wore the dutch crown of the most luxurious Stuart to the State Dinner of the British Royal Family, and many people were amazed by this huge crown.
The Queen of Brunei also has a crown that rivals it. The tiara, decorated with large pear-shaped diamonds, like the previous Fancy Color Diamond Crown, was first worn by Queen Salehal in the 1980s.
Crown of the Nine Provinces of Belgium vs Brunei Yellow Diamond Crown
The Belgian royal family is the less wealthy royal family in Europe, and the most valuable female crown is the crown of the nine provinces. Featuring 11 removable main diamonds, the crown is a pressbox-bottom headpiece worn only by Belgian queens on their biggest occasions.
I think the Queen of Brunei's Yellow Diamond Crown looks more luxurious than the Nine Provinces Crown of the Belgian Royal Family. Yellow diamonds, also known as gold diamonds, are rarely produced, brightly colored, and have a much higher value than ordinary white diamonds. The crown of the Queen of Brunei is set with several huge yellow diamonds, which are of great value.
Crown of the Empire of Luxembourg vs Crown of the Second Wife of the King of Brunei
The exclusive crown of the second wife of the King of Brunei is very similar to the luxembourg royal crown of the Imperial Crown, but slightly smaller. What surprised me was the luxurious diamond jewelry that the Brunei princess matched, just one word: trench!
Danish Antique Pearl Crown vs Brunei Water Drop Diamond Crown
The Queen of Denmark's Crown of Pearl Tears is the second most precious crown of the Danish royal family, similar to the crown worn by the king of Brunei's former three wives. Both have arches made of platinum and teardrop-shaped gemstone decorations, except that one is a pearl and the other is a pear-shaped diamond.
The Danish royal family has a long history of crowning the crown, and the preciousness of gemstones alone is not as great as that of the Brunei royal family.
Swedish Diamond Tassel Crown vs Brunei Heart Diamond Crown
Princess Madeleine of the Swedish royal family is particularly fond of this diamond crown, which is transformed from a necklace and features a fringed cluster of diamonds.
The headdress of the Princess of Brunei is decorated with a huge heart-shaped diamond and hundreds of small diamonds, which is much more luxurious than the crown of a Swedish princess.
Spanish Iris Crown vs Brunei Crown princess wedding crown
The most expensive Iris crown in the Spanish royal family is somewhat similar to the marriage crown of the Crown Princess of Brunei. It's just that the crown of the Spanish royal family is much older, and the crown of the Brunei royal family is a gift received by the crown princess when she married in 2004.
Norwegian Emerald Crown vs Brunei Emerald Crown
The most precious crown of the Norwegian royal family is the Emerald Crown, which has matching emerald necklace earrings and brooches, and is particularly luxurious to wear.
Queen Saleh also possessed an emerald and diamond tiara large enough to rival the Norwegian emerald crown, set with six large emerald gemstones.
Dutch Ruby Crown vs Brunei Ruby Crown
The Famous Maranrui Ruby Crown of the Dutch Royal Family is one of the more important crowns of the Dutch Royal Family, and is the exclusive crown of the queen or queen.
In terms of the size of the headdress and the quality and quantity of gemstones set, Brunei's Ruby Crown Jewelry Kit is far superior. But the wearing effect is still a good look of the Dutch royal family.
Why is the luxurious crown that the Brunei royal family spends a lot of money to wear is not as effective as that worn by European royal women?
Crown wearing effect of the Queen of England
I think the most fundamental reason is that a lot of Asians are not suitable for wearing European crowns.
Just like European double eyelids, it will look very good on the faces of Europeans and Americans, because Europeans and Americans generally have high brow bones, and the pairing with wide double eyelids appears to be deep and energetic, but European-style double eyelids are very contrary to the faces of many Asians, because many people do not have the deep brow bones of foreigners.
Queen of Brunei crown wearing effect
The European crown is specially designed by jewelry designers for European women, suitable for European and American white women with three-dimensional features and high heads. And many Asian women's facial features are not so prominent, the height is also relatively small, wearing a European crown will be more face-sized, sometimes appear top-heavy, look good violation.
Queen of Brunei and Queen of England
In addition, brunei royal women will wear a headscarf, which not only blocks the hair but also covers the neck, and the neck is not further enlarged.
Brunei royal women wear the European crown in the final analysis, there is no cultural self-confidence, and the consequences of blindly appropriating Western culture are not different.
The Crown Princess of Brunei wears traditional costumes and a crown
In fact, Brunei's traditional headdress is much better than the European crown, look at the effect of the Brunei Princess wearing the brunei traditional crown, much better than the effect of the European crown.
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